>>>>>>California first - Rode Island & Nevada next....
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>>>>>>http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/03/25/calif-pot-vote-isnt-just-hippies-versus-cops/
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>>>>>>It will be interesting when it passes to see if federal authorities sue to keep the measure from becoming law.
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>>>>>I think the biggest opponents of legalizing it are not cops but drug dealers. They have more to lose then anybody else.
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>>>>Well - you might have a point there...however I suspect that there will be more cops voting that drug dealers.
>>>>Anyway it will be interesting to see how the vote goes. I'd really like to see it pass - and based on all the polls I'd seen the people of California seem to be for it. Once they police organizations, bible-tumpers, and pharmaceutical companies start hiring lobbyists and blow a few zillion dollars on a scare-campaign hopefully it will still pass.
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>>>One possible problem with legalizing pot is that once you get the government's dirty and corrupted hands into it and they start raising taxes, fees, fines, etc, pot will no longer be affordable. Not that I smoke it.. before noon <g>
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>>The California initiative includes legalization of growing. Who needs dealers? stores? taxes?
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>>Grow your own! It's a freaking' weed! ;)
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>Ya but tomatoes can be grown for free & you don't see everyone growing their own - they still goto the store to buy them.
>Of course tomatoes don't cost $450 an ounce either....

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